
Ring - Peephole Cam
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Hi all, trying to make my mind up between these 3 - Tapo D235, Eufy E340, Ring Peephole cam. I need a video doorbell mainly for 2 way talk and to keep an eye on parcels. I am disabled and can sometimes take a long time to get to my door. At the moment I have no way of speaking to delivery drivers so can sometimes miss deliveries, parcels get delivered to neighbours, or at best they are left at my door. The first two are incredibly frustrating. I also sometimes need to leave parcels outside my door for couriers to collect, as again my slow speed of getting to the door means they sometimes just leave. Motion sensing capability is not really of importance, I am focusing mainly on just something that I can speak to someone through when they are at my door. And if they leave a parcel there, just to be able to keep an eye between them leaving it and me being able to get to the door. Or if I need to leave a parcel out, to keep an eye til it's collected. I live in a block of flats with fire doors, so bells need to be surface mounted using 3M type sticky pads, or peephole type. The Ring has this covered, the Tapo comes with a sticky pad, and Eufy I could use a suitable 3rd party one I've found. We cannot drill any holes for hard wiring either so they must be battery powered. I like the Ring's much smaller size as the battery is mounted inside the door, it's more subtle and less likely to make neighbours potentially feel uncomfortable. I also like that it is the most physically secure given it is actually screwed together through the door peephole. But I massively resent that if I did want to record anything or use motion detection for a short time, that it would require a subscription. I also have seen video examples and the field of view is not wide enough to see parcels. Between the Eufy and Tapo, the Eufy is lower profile and being fully black is more subtle against our dark blue doors. The main selling point for me is it has the separate camera for parcel monitoring. But perhaps the tapo's sensor is wide enough for genuine head to toe? I have a couple of echo pops and would like the doorbell to alert on these when someone rings the bell. Ideally I'd also like to be able to turn off any chime that happens on the doorbell itself, or be able to turn the volume of this right down. Apologies that this is quite long and rambling but perhaps the good people of this sub might be able to help me make a decision!
I have love/hate my Ring peephole doorbell for the following. When I started spending more time at home I got annoyed by the amount of times parcel deliveries would knock the door rather than ring the doorbell, causing occasional missed deliveries. So when I found that the peephole camera has knock detection it was the answer to my issue. I found it quite amusing that the first parcel delivery to arrive after the installation could be seen on the camera going to use the knocker, only to find the doorbell in it's place so they ended up knocking the door elsewhere rather than pressing the bell. Anyhow it still works perfectly after many years but...... The price increases over the years are ridiculous and the annual fee has gone from around £10ish pa to £50ish pa to be able to review video. If I could find a bell that offered the same functionality without the subscription then I would switch.
I've a bettery powered ring door bell, it's dead handy
Ring has battery powered doorbells. So, you could mount to the brick without wiring. And if you want a chime inside your house in addition to the app notifications, they have that too. Chime plugs into a wall outlet inside and chimes when doorbell rings.
Ring do battery powered ones. No wiring needed. Just charge it occasionally while you're at home. I think they even do little solar panel accessory so you really shouldn't need to charge it often
I have the ring WiFi version and it works great and instantly
I bought a house with ring cameras on the exterior and as the door bell. I've never like them and this has pushed me over the edge. They are all coming out.
Ring is the worst doorbell overpriced shit quality poor integration and poor build quality. Plus the subscription is so dumb. Wish ubiquity integrated better because it’s the best doorbell by leaps nd bounds
You’ll want a battery powered doorbell camera. Eufy, Wyze, Blink, etc. nearly all of them either the manufacturer or a third party make mounts for renters. IMHO stay away from ring (I just ditched mine after 5 years), they recently announced that they no longer require law enforcement to obtain a warrant for video from your doorbell.
I have 3 ring cameras, they're really good.
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